Re:Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
by dmortin on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @05:02AM
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It may be possible, but I haven't seen such a tool. I have seen tools where you edited the syntax tree via a GUI and it was terrible for writing code. It may work better for tree modifications.
Text programs are pretty efficent when writing, editing code, because you can access a large number of elements quickly with the syntax.
E.g. writing let a = 3 can be much quicker than starting some command palette from the keyboard, choosing the "declare variable" action and then fill some dialog with the name and value of the variable.
I have doubts it can be made as efficient as typing, otherwise we would have seen such prototypes already. Have you?
Text programs are pretty efficent when writing, editing code, because you can access a large number of elements quickly with the syntax.
E.g. writing let a = 3 can be much quicker than starting some command palette from the keyboard, choosing the "declare variable" action and then fill some dialog with the name and value of the variable.
I have doubts it can be made as efficient as typing, otherwise we would have seen such prototypes already. Have you?